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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of read more
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. read more
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on read more
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol.
There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy read more
There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion.
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to read more
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still read more
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.